Gefter is the author of Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe (WW. Norton, 2014). It's the first major biography of Sam Wagstaff, a name as obscure as Mapplethorpe's is infamous. Sam was ...

Presiding over this motley affair was Sam Wagstaff. Tall, charming, and beautiful in a richly disheveled fashion—he liked to wear a tuxedo with white sneakers and a studiously rumpled shirt ...

Sam Wagstaff knew there was something special about Robert Mapplethorpe the moment he set eyes on him. "Who is that?" he asked, pointing to a small photo-booth picture lying on a friend's table.

“He had desire, stamina, intensity — all the things that make passion work,” said the photography dealer Robert Hershkowitz, talking about his friend, the American collector Sam ...

In his excellent biography of art curator and collector Sam Wagstaff, Philip Gefter notes how the rise of the gay rights movement in the early 1970s occurred at the same time as the growing ...

Wagstaff, by Philip Gefter (Liveright). The art collector and curator Sam Wagstaff championed minimalism in the nineteen-sixties and photography in the seventies, and is often remembered as the ...

"Black White + Gray" borrows its title from a 1964 exhibition - one of the first to corral minimalism - organized by Sam Wagstaff at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Conn. The film's director ...

The new photography exhibit at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, of photographs collected by its former curator Sam Wagstaff, is called “The Thrill of the Chase.” “It was a ...

Let us begin with the subtitle. One assumes this is Philip Gefter's way of introducing Sam Wagstaff, a lesser-known personality in the art world, by association with the better-known Robert ...